Group Life, Annuities Helped Life Insurers Beat Expectations: Morgan Stanley Analysts
May 27, 2020 by Allison Bell
COVID-19 could still flare up.
But, if the pandemic continues to be more like the terrible 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic than like the catastrophic 1918 flu pandemic, life insurance claims could have a much smaller effect on the companies’ earnings than investment market turmoil.
Nigel Dally and other securities analysts at Morgan Stanley have given that assessment in a look at how the pandemic has affected the life insurers they track.
Securities analysts help active investors look for investment ideas.
The Morgan Stanley analysts focus in the new report on the kinds of large, life insurance-focused insurers that might be of special interest to an investor who wanted to try to make money by betting for, or against, insurers that could feel a big impact from the pandemic.
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